From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Pgsql-Performance ((((E-mail))))" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron |
Date: | 2006-10-23 21:12:16 |
Message-ID: | 453D3030.1000006@commandprompt.com |
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Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>> If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
>>> Solaris + ZFS on it. However, you're limited to 2 dual core Opterons,
>>> it seems.
>>
>> The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)
>
> but can you sling the bits to and from the disk as fast as the X4500?
> the speed numbers on the i/o of the x4500 are mind-numbing.
Honestly, I don't know. I can tell you that they perform VERY well for
us (as do the 385s). I have deployed about several 385s and 585s with
the MSA30s over the last 6 months and have not been disappointed yet.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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